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- Facebook<\/i> – \u00a0Yes, I do waste a lot of time following links on Facebook that have nothing to do with writing. \u00a0I love being able to stalk\u00a0my kids online using Facebook, \u00a0and it’s a great way to keep in touch with friends both old and new. \u00a0I spend more time then I should following links to quizzes and news items that I know are\u00a0just going to irritate me. I could just open up my USA Today\u00a0app instead. \u00a0But of\u00a0all the social networks out there, Facebook is the one I\u00a0go to most frequently. I belong to an author support group and also to a group of publishing folks who are really into paper planning, and I \u00a0just joined a group for authors who are interested in doing their own formatting. \u00a0All that I find absolutely necessary. \ud83d\ude42 As I look at my list, though, I realize I haven’t even included Twitter. \u00a0I have tried really hard to get into Twitter, but it’s just not in my top three. Same with Pinterest. \u00a0Unless I’m looking for renovation ideas, which is when I usually visit Pinterest, I don’t go there. \u00a0There’s\u00a0only so much time in the day!<\/li>\n
- Trip Advisor <\/i>– \u00a0When we are planning a big trip I usually start out by buying a Frommer’s book on the country and reading it cover to cover. \u00a0But then I follow up with months of research on Trip Advisor. It’s hands-down the best place I know to get advice on where I want to go. \u00a0I tend to pay the most attention to reviews from travelers\u00a0who live in my province or Alberta, because we have similar expectations. \u00a0Whereas, folks from Ontario and folks from the UK have different expectations, I’ve come to realize through reading reviews on Trip Advisor. So while I might check those reviews and those ideas, if I really want to know how I might feel about a place, I depend on the residents of BC\u00a0and our\u00a0neighbours to the left, depending which way you are\u00a0looking at the map of Canada. \u00a0I consider Alberta to be on the left, \u00a0because I am standing inside British Columbia looking out. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- Instagram<\/i> – \u00a0This is a new one for me. I discovered Instagram basically because I decided to participate in the spring #listifylife challenge \u00a0and Instagram is the primary place where the challenge is occurring. \u00a0I discovered that I really like Instagram. \u00a0Maybe it’s because participating in the challenge coincided with me blogging about our trip to Patagonia, because I realized I could start posting pictures of the trip to Instagram. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0So, on Instagram, instead of networking really with just other writers, I have started networking with other travellers. \u00a0I follow a lot of travel bloggers and photographers on Instagram, and honestly it is what I am mainly there for, the travel photography, not the social networking.<\/li>\n
- Romance Divas Forum<\/i> – \u00a0Easily the best, in my opinion, support and industry and research and brainstorming forum for romance authors on the Internet. \u00a0And\u2026 It’s how I discovered my paper planning group on Facebook, and that paper planning group is my happiest place on the Internet right now. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Stock Photo Websites <\/i>– \u00a0This\u00a0one wouldn’t be on my list if I weren’t\u00a0an author. What reason would\u00a0I have to visit stock photo websites? \u00a0You would probably more likely find me on shoe buying websites\u2026 \u00a0But\u00a0because I am mainly independently publishing right now, \u00a0stock photo websites are super important in the book cover brainstorming process. While\u00a0some book cover artists will look at the stock photo websites for you, others want you to search for your own stock images or at least provide them as an example of what you’re looking for. Believe me, I can spend hours and hours and hours on stock photo websites when I am brainstorming\u00a0a book cover.<\/li>\n
- Amazon and Chapters<\/i> – \u00a0Chapters is a Canadian online bookstore, and I buy paper books mainly from Chapters or\u00a0Canadian Amazon. \u00a0I buy e-books from American Amazon, and because I am an independent author I am on Amazon a fair amount\u00a0checking sales rankings, etc. But I also check sales rankings on Kobo, iBooks, and other places. Actually, I don’t really<\/i> check sales rankings all that much unless I am running a promotion or have a new release, which hasn’t occurred in too long. \u00a0But when my next release does come out within the next few months, I know I will be stalking my\u00a0Amazon dashboard. \u00a0Kobo\u00a0is also easy to stalk, \u00a0but I don’t buy books from Kobo. I buy the odd book from iBooks, but I prefer the lighting on my Kindle to reading on an iPad, so therefore I spend the most time buying books on Amazon. \u00a0I had a Kindle before the Kobo\u00a0came out, and I still use my original Kindle (sorry, Kobo, \u00a0but as an author I love you!)<\/li>\n
- Cover Artist Sites <\/i>– \u00a0I have used the same cover artist for all my books as Cindy and under my pen name except for two short stories. Even though I keep\u00a0going back to the same cover\u00a0artist, I like to visit other cover artist sites just to get a taste for what\u00a0else is out there. \u00a0A lot of cover artists also run their own photography shoots, so I get sucked into those rabbit holes very, very easily. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Where do you waste time on the Internet? Is it time wasted? Or is it…a necessity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I would argue that for a writer there is no such thing as wasting time on the Internet, because entertainment is fodder for stories, and we use the Internet a lot for research and for planning our writing days, etc. \u00a0So this is really more a catalogue of where I am most likely to be… Continue reading Listify Life – Favorite Places on the Internet to Waste Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Trip Advisor <\/i>– \u00a0When we are planning a big trip I usually start out by buying a Frommer’s book on the country and reading it cover to cover. \u00a0But then I follow up with months of research on Trip Advisor. It’s hands-down the best place I know to get advice on where I want to go. \u00a0I tend to pay the most attention to reviews from travelers\u00a0who live in my province or Alberta, because we have similar expectations. \u00a0Whereas, folks from Ontario and folks from the UK have different expectations, I’ve come to realize through reading reviews on Trip Advisor. So while I might check those reviews and those ideas, if I really want to know how I might feel about a place, I depend on the residents of BC\u00a0and our\u00a0neighbours to the left, depending which way you are\u00a0looking at the map of Canada. \u00a0I consider Alberta to be on the left, \u00a0because I am standing inside British Columbia looking out. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n